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The Voice of Experience: Causal Inference in Phonotactic Adaptation

Description:

Successfully grappling with the widespread linguistic variation of daily life requires speakers to adapt to systematic variation in the environment while discarding incidental variation, based on their prior experience. In the case of phonotactics, speakers’ prior experience is that talkers who differ in their language background are likely to vary...

Keyword:

Phonotactics, Accent adaptation, Causal Inference, Adaptation, Adult language learning, and Phonotactic learning

Subject:

Linguistics

Creator:

Denby, Thomas

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14735 and etdadmin_upload_674207